| Over the years quilts have become cherished items | | | | was the size that was desired by the quilt maker, a |
| that are given and received with love. In fact they are | | | | filing was attached, which usually was a worn blanket |
| very rarely used to provide warmth but many people | | | | or an inexpensive batting material. The end result was |
| give them as gifts because they have come to | | | | a two sided quilt that was then held together by hand |
| symbolize something very personal. Today it is an art | | | | sewn stitches or by tying the quilt with yarn. |
| and the art of quilt making has become a craft of the | | | | Many people, because of the love and effort that |
| very few,. In olden days it used to be quite | | | | went into making these quilts tend to keep them |
| commonplace, but the scarcity of quilt makers today | | | | around as very sentimental valuables. And with good |
| only adds luxury and sentiment to quilts. For this reason | | | | reason too; such things are so rare to find! |
| many people love keepsake quits! Think about it, what | | | | Today quilts are made a tad more different and under |
| better gift to give a newborn baby than a keepsake | | | | more favourable circumstances undoubtedly. Some of |
| quilt that he/she will have forever to remember the | | | | them are quite costly and very elegant. And these are |
| very first day they were wrapped in love? | | | | the ones that are mostly given as baby gifts. But even |
| In olden times quilts were actually used to keep warm | | | | these are not used for functional purposes per se, but |
| in cold weather and many were also used as | | | | are mostly displayed on the walls of nurseries or as |
| bedspreads. And even those that were used and | | | | family valuables elsewhere in the home. |
| laundered many times over can still be found displayed | | | | There are a million different things you can do with |
| in homes today with that added sentiment of the past. | | | | your keepsake quilts and a million different ways to |
| Quilts are usually made by salvaging fabric from | | | | display your quilts. A good idea to is to take smaller |
| clothing and other sources and the sewing of these | | | | quilts and sew them together to make one large quilt |
| pieces of fabric together to form one large piece of | | | | that you can actually use as a decorative cover. |
| fabric. Today this is referred to as a crazy quilt. There | | | | Not very many people understand the true beauty of |
| was no set pattern that the quilt followed. It literally | | | | keepsake quilts but they are truly valuable and they |
| was one piece of fabric sewed on to another until the | | | | are something that is perhaps of greater sentimental |
| desired size of fabric was achieved. Once the fabric | | | | value than a photo album. |